Spring Bike Pre-Flight
Motorcycles have something in common with lawn mowers and weed whackers: It's common for them to just sit for months during the off season. This makes them all vulnerable to the...
Stu Monster and the summer of ’86
It was the summer of 1986 - and muscle was cheap.
My friend since elementary school, Stuart - whom we all called Stu Monster in tribute to his exploits with beer...
Hitler’s Mercedes…
Here's a classic car with one not-so-careful former owner whose historical logbook is blacker than the tires.
In the days of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler preened and waved at the faithful...
The Toyota 222D
Here is the MR2 that Toyota built for rally racing. Even for a race car this is one of the wildest looking cars Toyota has ever built. The interior looks like...
1966-76 Jensen Interceptor: Great Name, Nearly Great Car
Hybrid vehicles are not a modern invention. The quirky, quintessentially British Jensen automobile company of Birmingham, England had the idea long before Toyota - and decades before there would be...
Mustang SVO, 1984-1986
Trying to keep the performance flame flickering in the late '70s wasn't easy. Big-cube, high-powered V-8s had been all but outlawed. Only a handful of smallblocks were still gimping along, their...
Do You Remember When?
You can date yourself by the president who was in office when you were in high school - or by what was happening in the car business when you first learned...
They’re Coming for Bikes Next . . .
Most people who ride motorcycles do it because they want to. A motorcycle is - usually - not the primary instrument of transportation. It is what the rider uses when he...
15 Percent Ethanol “Gas” May be Here by Fall…
If it was built before the 1980s, your vehicle was designed to burn gasoline - and nothing else.
That's what was sold back then, so it's what the engineers assumed when they...
Five Ford Fails
America's Big Three have had more than their share of bad ideas over the past 20 years.
Let's look at Ford's flops first.
* Lincoln Mark VIII (1993-1998) -
This car snuffed what...